I haven’t posted in ages and have to say sorry about that but time has been rather pressing in many areas. I haven’t even found the time to play much poker online these days and trading on the exchanges has been taking up my time. However there has been a lull in proceedings and so I have been back active playing a little poker again. I also need to say that I am also delighted to hear of the return of one of my favourite poker sites from the past and that is Pokerroom which opened its “doors” again recently.
I think that there is a lot of viability for many players to play poker at this site because of the fact that you can get decent player numbers here which I think is pivotal for any serious player on any poker site. At peak times then I have seen as many as 40,000 people active on the site and that gives players some decent choices for multi-tabling. I have been talking with a few people as well and the consensus is that the site isn’t as tough as many of the larger sites and networks and this is especially the case in no limit hold’em ring games.
That is music to my ears because I think that in the modern online poker world that it is vitally important for serious players to be able to switch sites. I know the arguments for staying because your notes have an awful lot of value attached to them. However once you start to play above certain levels in cash poker then your notes have lesser value because the better players are constantly balancing their ranges. Lots of players with very extensive notes are not making money in middle limits these days and so it is debatable just what value notes have above and beyond certain levels of play.
What I like about Pokerroom is that the lobby seems pretty good and this is what I use to game select. I like to multi-table full ring and so this means that my game selection policies are actually simplified compared to many peoples. I am looking for full ring games and decent stack sizes. I do not like minimum stack players as they make it difficult or more difficult for me to properly execute my game plan. While they cannot really harm me financially in a direct sense, the way that they conduct their business is a hindrance to my methods.
So I like big stack tight ABC regs and players with less than full buy ins. I also like standard reg type ABC multi-tablers as well and at the NL100 level that I play then most players are +EV to my style unless they are a good min stack player, a solid single or double tabling player who is reading my style or a very strong deep stack reg. Luckily these players are in shorter supply at these levels and so I am confident in most games that I select. But you do need to select the best games but good site lobby data can cut through an awful lot of rubbish very quickly and shorten the process.
